Botswana: Civil Servants Suspend Strike

Civil servants in Botswana have suspended their eight-week-long strike, unions and government have confirmed. Read more »

Africa: Mobile Phones Improve Health Across Continent

Peter Benjamin is the general manager of Cell-Life, a South African non-profit organisation that uses cellphones to assist with healthcare in the HIV/Aids sector. Cell-Life is… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Contesting Parties Both Welcome Summit Outcome

In a communique publicly welcomed by political leaders on both sides of Zimbabwe's political divide, Southern African presidents have called on them to create an environment… Read more »

Africa: Education Vital to Good Health

Dr. Samuel A.S. Kargbo is the director of reproductive health in Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation. He recently attended the International Conference on Global… Read more »

South Africa: How Albertina Sisulu Helped Change U.S.-South African Relations

Albertina Sisulu has been celebrated in obituaries as a political leader in her own right, as the matriarch of a political dynasty whose stature rivals that of the Mandelas, and as… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Southern African Leaders Should Stand With Victims

As leaders of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meet in Johannesburg this weekend in yet another attempt to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis, the question remains whether… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: In Memory of Floribert Chebeya

The lifeless body of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was found in the back seat of his car on June 2 in a neighborhood not far from his home in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic… Read more »

West Africa: Meningitis Vaccine Could Save 140,000 Lives

There has been a dramatic drop in the number of cases of meningitis A in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso following the vaccination of nearly 20 million people against the disease,… Read more »

South Africa: Albertina Sisulu's Story of Persecution And Suffering, Love And Triumph

Albertina Sisulu, the South African liberation struggle icon who died at 92 last week, was the matriarch of a political family whose influence on South African life is widely felt. Read more »

Gabon: Obama Aide Defends Meeting With Bongo

President Barack Obama's spokesman has defended a decision to invite President Ali Bongo for a White House meeting on Thursday on the grounds that Gabon is an "important ally" of… Read more »

Madagascar: Ravalomanana's Fate Bedevils Talks

The return to Madagascar of its deposed and exiled president, Marc Ravalomanana, is creating profound division among the political formations which met in Botswana this week to… Read more »

Africa: Call to Assess Role of Mobile Technology in Health

With more than 70 percent of the world’s five billion cellphone users living in low- and middle-income countries, mobile technology is seen as offering the potential to… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Liberation Hero Tekere Dies

Edgar Zivanai Tekere, a founding member of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) and one of the luminaries of Zimbabwe's war of liberation,has died, reports NewsDay from… Read more »

Zimbabwe: 'Astonishing' Findings on Voters' Roll

Excerpts from a report by RW Johnson for the South African Institute of Race Relations: Read more »

Africa: 'To Eradicate Hunger, Treat Small Farms as Business'

Feeding the world’s hungry is the challenge of our times, says Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, an energetic advocate for poor people, particularly poor, rural women. Nwanze is president… Read more »

Africa: Exploring Mobile Communications for Healthcare

An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday. Read more »

Africa: Somali Journalists Killed With Impunity

Somalia is the world's second most murderous country for journalists, says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more »

Africa: Widespread Progress, Better Quality of Life

Critics of foreign aid to Africa say that much of the assistance goes to waste. But author and economist Charles Kenny sees things differently. Kenny, who writes a weekly column… Read more »

Libya: Forcing Gaddafi Out Will Be 'Slow, Steady Process,' Says Obama

United States President Barack Obama told journalists in London Wednesday that dislodging Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi from power in Libya will be "a slow, steady process in which… Read more »

Libya: Zuma to Discuss Gaddafi's 'Exit' Plan

South African President Jacob Zuma is set to visit Tripoli next week to conduct talks with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. Read more »

Sudan: Security Plan and Cooperative Spirit Needed to End Abyei Conflict - U.S. Envoy

Efforts are underway to develop a new security plan for Sudan's disputed Abyei region that would include the withdrawal of northern and southern Sudanese troops and the boosting of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Teenage Model Wins Contract With Louis Vuitton

A 16-year-old beauty from Zimbabwe has been chosen to appear in the the Louis Vuitton's autumn/winter 2011 campaign. Nyasha Matonhodze is based in Northampton and was "discovered"… Read more »

Eswatini: Deep Cuts in Govt Payroll Threatened

The International Monetary Fund has suggested that the Swaziland government, already facing protests from its citizens, may have to slash the government payroll by U.S. $35… Read more »

Malawi: UK Suspends Aid to Country

Malawi has lost aid from Britain and Germany after expressing concerns about poor governance in the country. This decision, according to the Nyasa Times, was taken because of… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Of Saviours, God and Domination

The history of Côte d’Ivoire is marked internally by successive ethnic dominations. In 1960, following the end of colonisation by France, Félix… Read more »